Leslie Maranto

The Amory School District Dropout Prevention & Restructuring Plan outlines strategies to reduce dropout rates, improve student outcomes, and enhance overall academic success. Key objectives include reducing retention rates, increasing attendance, providing targeted assistance for at-risk subgroups to meet graduation requirements, offering graduation recovery initiatives for students aged 17-21, and facilitating successful transitions from juvenile detention. Furthermore, the plan includes high school restructuring goals focused on reducing course failures, decreasing disciplinary incidents, maintaining high average daily attendance, and sustaining a high graduation rate.

The Amory School District's Dropout Prevention & Restructuring Plan provides a comprehensive framework to address dropout rates and enhance educational outcomes. The plan's core objectives include reducing retention rates in early grades, supporting subgroups to meet graduation requirements, offering graduation recovery programs for students aged 17-21, and facilitating the transition of students from juvenile detention centers. It emphasizes improving academic performance by reducing course failures, decreasing disciplinary issues, and maintaining an average daily attendance of 94% or higher. The plan integrates fifteen key strategies such as systemic renewal, school-community collaboration, fostering safe learning environments, family engagement, early childhood and literacy development, mentoring, service learning, alternative and after-school opportunities, professional development, active learning, educational technology, individualized instruction, and career and technical education, all geared towards achieving an 85% graduation rate by the end of the 2022-2023 school year.

This document details the Amory School District's Dropout Prevention and Restructuring Plan for 2024-2025. The plan focuses on overarching goals to reduce retention rates, increase attendance, support at-risk subgroups for graduation, facilitate graduation recovery, and ensure successful transitions for students from juvenile detention centers. Key strategic areas include systemic renewal, community collaboration, safe learning environments, family engagement, early education and literacy, mentoring, service-learning, and targeted interventions through alternative schooling, after-school programs, and individualized instruction. Amory High School's specific goals aim to reduce course failures and discipline by 2%, maintain 95% attendance, and achieve a 90% graduation rate by May 2025.